by admin | Mar 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
I remember driving nearly two hours outside of Austin in my old ’98 Buick, trying to find a little camp where our church was doing a silent retreat. I’d never been on a silent retreat, and I had PLANS. I was going to get quiet, hear from God and get some...
by admin | Mar 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
I don’t remember what it felt like to not wake up with the weight of the Not Knowing. To open my eyes and stretch and let out a sigh of contentment in the morning. Long stints of Not Knowing somehow changed the way I woke and the way I lived my days. It wasn’t always...
by admin | Mar 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Welcome to working from home. Welcome to staying at home. Welcome to “social distancing.” For the last few years, I’ve been working in my own apartment, video-chatting with my co-workers and spending a whole lot of time in my own house. I’ve...
by admin | Dec 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’m not particularly good a new years resolutions. I’m more of a Lent gal—I can do most anything for 40 days. But a whole year? That feels nearly impossible. I’m just organized enough to get a lot of things done but just undisciplined enough to struggle after a...
by admin | Dec 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
A good story can be told across generations and in nearly any context. It can be whispered to eye-rubbing children before they give into sleep. It can be laughed about in the back row of a classroom. It can be talked about on road trips and debated in lecture halls....
by Melissa | Feb 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’ve stood behind a camera well over 35 times capturing an engagement or a wedding day. I’ve hidden behind bushes, ducked around the other side of a rock on the beach, sprinted across a field to congratulate the new couple and rejoice in the moments...
